The Family Y will offer an endurance training class for cyclists from Jan. 22-April 15.

Each class will have a two-hour riding component and a half-hour of core conditioning. In addition, the following topics will be discussed: proper bike fit; clothing and equipment; nutrition and hydration; aches and pains —preventing them and what to do if you have them; weekly training recommendations and how to design your own training plan.

Los Alamos Little Theatre presents “A Thousand Clowns,” by Herb Gardner. Cowgirl BBQ will cater a Texas-style dinner. There will be a New Year’s Eve countdown and celebration, with music and dancing following the show. Patrick Kelly will act as emcee and DJ. Tickets are $45 per person and are available at CB Fox Department Store. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Ostalio Archuleta, 37, of Abiquiu pleaded guilty in Municipal Court to failure to pay, failure to appear, contempt of court/probation violation and failure to appear on order to show cause. Judge Alan Kirk sentenced Archuleta to serve five days in jail and to pay $430 in fines and fees including a $100 bench warrant fee.

Wednesday, work began on the Central Avenue and 15th Street intersection, which was closed to through traffic in all directions. This was a full day closure to allow the Municipal Building Complex contractor to repair and patch previous utility trenching on Central and 15th Street. Detour signs for both 15th Street and Central Avenue were posted.

Athletes in every sport came up big for 2011, but few bigger than the top prep athletes in the county and they dominated the headlines during the past 12 months.

Only a handful of athletes in Los Alamos County could claim to have had a better year than did Chase Ealey. Ealey earned three track and field state titles, completing a trifecta which might possibly never be duplicated, with the exception of herself repeating the feat in a few months’ time.

It will be about a year before construction can start on a new plutonium laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory after Congress pulled back funding for the project and restricted how the money can be spent.

The Congressional action also raised questions about the long-term prospects for the new Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Nuclear Facility.